Sunday, June 7, 2015

America's Pet Ownership Priorities Are All Wrong

America's Pet Ownership Priorities Are All Wrong

Pets, Americans love them. Dogs, cats, gerbils, snakes, pigs, horses, cows, monkeys, you name it, Americans
love and hold their animal pets dear. Millions of pets, so many pets
here in the States, that in 2014, wee spent an estimated 58 Billion
US Dollars on feeding and caring for our pets
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-spent-a-record-56-billion-on-pets-last-year/. I don't know about you, but I find that amount of money a bit overboard and can think of a lot of other, and more important things
that Americans should put 58 Billion Dollars towards.

Don't get me wrong, I think having a
pet is a wonderful thing. In fact, I think every child should have a
pet and carry the responsibilities that come with pet ownership.
Children can learn such wonderful and beneficial life lessons when
taking on responsibilities of owning a pet. Take for instance
grooming. Making sure a pet is well groomed, teaches a child the
importance of cleanliness as well self-respect for one's appearance.
Of course there are many other great lessons to be learned for
children when taking on responsibility of owning a pet, there is
also attention to medical care, feeding, and removing of animal excrement as
well as others. No doubt, pets can be used to teach children valuable
life lessons.

Beyond children learning life lessons
from owning a pet, adults also enjoy having and owning pet animals
as well. Pets keep many American adults occupied, and many of our
pets are generally affectionate. They help us in times of loneliness
and some even say pets can be therapeutic. Beyond those reasons, many Americans own animal pets because they tend not to communicate
displeasure with human interaction either. I mean, if you come home
from a bad day at work and are grumpy or mad, your pet isn't going to
intrude on your negative behaviours and attitude by asking why you're
so miserable. Most pets when they see you upset like that, just go
and hide from you, they don't don't know about good and bad days,
they only know to avoid you if you treat them badly.

That's really why most people have
pets, they lack human emotions. After all, humans can give us grief.
Animals on the other hand generally don't interact with us when we
have and express negative feelings. Here in the USA, more and more of
us are getting pets, but at the same time, are lessening our
interaction and communication with other humans. It all comes back to
the area regarding human emotions. We humans want and desire
interaction, but in our culture, other humans are seemingly becoming more and more judgmental, or at least we perceive they are being judgmental, and
we feel that these judgmental humans tend to tell us when we are doing something
immoral or wrong. This is a major issue for Americans because Americans don't like being judged or being told
what to do, which makes animal ownership an easier choice over human
interaction and interpersonal relationships. Again, animals generally don't know, and don't really
care about your immorality or personality defects, they only know
when you are treating them well or not.

What can only be properly described as
the new form of American escapism through the use of pet ownership,
is widening. As I mentioned earlier, Americans increasingly and
generally don't want to have to deal with hearing from humans
regarding their personal errors in judgement, or immoral practices.
There is a huge movement here to make pets and indeed, many animals,
pets or not, as likened to humans, but not as the “you are judging
me” humans. We see an explosion of folks dressing their pets with
human clothing, pushing small pets in make-shift baby carriages, even
folks marrying their pets as well. Heck, there's even a website on
how to marry your pet, Lonely ? Can't find a mate ? No problem, marry
your animal pet http://www.marryyourpet.com/.
Pet's seemingly are in, humans are out.

How far are Americans willing to go as
far as replacing human interaction with animal relations ? I'm not
sure, I mean if a person is willing to marry an animal, how much
worse can it get ? The word “accountability” is missing from
vocabularies of many Americans. We don't like to be held accountable
and animals seem to fit the mold to enable our negative character
trait of not being held accountable for our decision making. So many
in our nation have really screwed up their lives and indeed, our
culture as well by ignoring the fact that each of us needs to be held
accountable for our actions and morality. We've really made a mess of
God's design for America and our own lives by taking the course of
making animals as equal or near equal to humans. It has become so bad
here in relation to this issue of humanizing our pets, we openly
murder millions of baby's in a mothers womb each year without batting
an eye, yet if we see a person hit a dog or maltreat an animal, we literally
scream for that person to be fried in the electric chair. Americans'
have their priorities all screwed up.

A nation, any nation is in deep
trouble, including on the verge of either imploding or being blown up
by God's own judging hand when it diminishes the value of human beings
while yet also valuing inanimate objects or animals as being more
precious than the life of human beings. America is surely missing the mark by a wide margin by treating animals better than human beings, that's called having a very poor decision making process.

America, get your heads unstuck from up
inside your Gluteus Maximus. Animals are not human beings. Animals
are animals. If your offended by someone maltreating an animal, good
for you for speaking up or taking rightful action, but If you are
willing to fight for alleged rights of animals, you need to
prioritize your decision making process by defending human beings
first and humans as being more important than animals. One photo of an abused animal on social
media should only be posted after 100 photos of abused and murdered
human beings placed on social media first. Let's get our God gifted priorities in order !

Baby's and humans and more precious
than pets and animals. Get it ?

Genesis 1:28-30 “And God blessed
them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the
earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves
on the earth.' And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every plant
yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree
with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every
beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything
that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I
have given every green plant for food.' And it was so.”